WooHoo, Clarence! Du'ers have your number!

[KoKo]

Thanks to Du'er "Dave SZ" for this!Tue Jun-29-04 07:03 PM by DaveSZ


http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=18601

Supreme Court deals Congress setback on Internet porn law
Jun 29, 2004
By Tom Strode
WASHINGTON (BP)--The U.S. Supreme Court has dealt Congress another setback in its effort to protect children from Internet pornography.

The high court ruled June 29 in a 5-4 vote that a federal judge was correct in blocking enforcement of the Child Online Protection Act, a 1998 law that bans commercial Web sites from making sexually explicit material available to children under the age of 17. The justices sent the case back to the court for a full trial.

Joining Kennedy in the majority opinion on Ashcroft v. ACLU were associate Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Thomas’ vote was something of a surprise, since he is normally regarded as one of the court’s two most conservative members. Associate Justice Antonin Scalia is the other.

Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, joined by Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Associate Sandra Day O’Connor, wrote a dissenting opinion, as did Scalia.

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1. Clarence Thomas, anti-porn crusader? That'll be the day.

Long Dong Thomas will always stand for the right to porn. Sexual harassment is so much easier if there's plenty of porn around.